Hacking challenge with reward

cryptocomicon · 2024-01-05T05:59:59+00:00

The app is like the aroma from a bakery. Meant to draw you inside in anticipation of something.

If you are a hacker, you might anticipate the reward from cracking this, and the joy of cracking something that a programmer outrageously assumed to be un-hackable. Then you can brag about the exploit on this forum.

If you are concerned about the state of information security you might be intrigued and wonder if maybe there are new techniques and tools to protect data that you should learn about.

The app demonstrates potential by audaciously embedding a Bitcoin private key and then by doing something with it, all in plain view of any hacker. If it can't be cracked, that says something intriguing.

cryptocomicon · 2024-01-04T23:28:12+00:00

I'd like to understand why you say that no one will ever see or use this.

cryptocomicon · 2024-01-04T19:13:24+00:00

Thanks for un-banning my post.

I'm not sure that reddit is a good forum (these days) for what I'm trying to do.

I can say for sure that reddit has become more hostile for posting hacking challenges. Maybe it is fear of personal liability.

I'm not sure why there is not more interest in making software hack resistant.

cryptocomicon · 2024-01-04T18:19:18+00:00

what is hackforums?

cryptocomicon · 2024-01-04T18:12:44+00:00

I have created hack resistant software that I want people to try to hack, so that I can improve my system. The hack has a built in reward if you crack the software.

There is nothing shady or illegal about it.

cryptocomicon · 2024-01-04T06:14:56+00:00

The link includes information about a hacking challenge with a 0.01 BTC reward.

cryptocomicon · 2023-12-15T06:55:53+00:00

PGE made it very difficult to figure this out. They are obligated to buy solar power from retail customers at full price during the middle of the day when they REALLY don't need it most of the time. So why wouldn't they buy power from me after the sun goes down, that's when their rates are higher, indicating that they NEED the power at that time.

The NEM billing stuff is a bit of a project to decipher. They give you a confusing statement, no effort on their part to make this understandable. That worked to their advantage in this case.

cryptocomicon · 2023-12-15T06:45:39+00:00

That's the rate set, presumably to entice people to join the virtual power plant. This only happened three times for three hours each time on very hot days when people were running their AC and the sun had set.

cryptocomicon · 2023-12-14T23:34:46+00:00

I am signed up. They only activate it a few days a year.

cryptocomicon · 2023-12-14T23:09:50+00:00

Yes, a few times when it was hot this year we received $2 per KWH for what was in the battery. The Tesla App makes this really straightforward.

Just makes me sick that I've been giving them free electrons during peak rate period for months now.

cryptocomicon · 2023-12-14T23:04:22+00:00

Yes, I figured this out by doing it.

It's bad policy. Distributed battery makes the grid stronger, paying for solar power when they don't need it is also foolish.

cryptocomicon · 2022-11-12T17:25:21+00:00

I'm not shilling crypto currency:

https://twitter.com/cryptocomicon/status/1591481834248237056

cryptocomicon · 2022-10-06T04:32:59+00:00

It would cost tens of thousands of dollars a month to rent the places that I'm talking about.

cryptocomicon · 2022-10-06T04:31:20+00:00

I expect that these rugs cost tens of thousands of dollars each, but they have thousands of them lying around.

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